Tips and Techniques

Every DSLR owner worries at some point or another about dust on lenses. While dust on the body of the lens is fairly easy to clean, dust on the elements is more tricky. You can clean the barrel and rubber rings on the lens using a moist toothbrush or a soft cloth. You have to be careful not to let drops of water run into any of the cracks below the zoom and focus rings and enter the lens. Ditto with the switches on the lens.

Cleaning Lens Elements:

A disclaimer before we get into more detail – unless you know what you are doing, it is always better to leave a lens alone or seek expert help. We know – we have been in situations where we left a lens worse off than it was before we began cleaning it!

Prevention:

Prevention is definitely the better option. Which is why almost all of the lenses tha

The evening of Jan 31, 2018 witnessed a beautiful lunar eclipse starting before moonrise and ending well into the night. A lot of Primes & Zooms customers were out shooting the moon that night and a few of them got great results while some came back with images that did not quite do justice to the beautiful sight.

Shooting celestial objects is not an easy task unless you have some practice with it. If you are a beginner and would like to understand how to take simple but great shots of the moon and planets, this article is for you!

Choose your subject:

Close-up of the rings of Saturn shot by the Cassini spacecraft: your images will NOT look like this!

Astrophotography